Summer nights always come late, and now the clock is pointing to six o'clock, but it is still not dark.

If it's already night, the atmosphere is sure to be a little more lively. It refers not only to the atmosphere of the festival, but also to the atmosphere between Shota and Yukino.

"What's wrong, Shota?"

Noticing whether Shota raised his head, Yukino asked with concern. But Shota didn't bother to answer Yukino's question, his attention was completely drawn to a small grease stain on the corner of Yukino's mouth.

"It's nothing, it's just, Yukino you're so cute." Looking at the charred yakitori in Yukino's hand, Shota found out where the oil stain came from, so he stretched out his thumb and pressed slightly on the corner of Yukino's mouth, "It's oily on your face." ”

"Huh...... It's ......"

"I didn't expect that Xiao Xuenai, who has always paid attention to appearance, would be like this."

"Hmph...... This is a normal thing, isn't it? ”

Xue Nai tilted her head, she was embarrassed to say to Shota that she was just watching the children in the stall opposite catch goldfish, and she was so fascinated that the corners of her mouth were stained with oil.

"Yes, yes, then let's move on to the next one~ Huh? That ...... It's Kansai Wind Okoyaki.,Go try it Yukino.,It's amazing~"

"Well, at least wait until I get this string...... You're playing tricks! ”

As soon as Yukino wanted to say to Shota, when she finished eating the skewer with only half of the skewer left in her hand, the other party had already leaned over and ate the remaining half of the skewer into her mouth.

"Hmm, it's so sweet, I put too much sauce."

Rolling his eyes wonderfully at Shota who had eaten his own kebabs, Yukino no longer paid attention to Shota, who was like a child who had succeeded in his prank, and walked towards the stall that Shota had just said.

Okonomiyaki may sound strangely named, but it's actually a pancake with cabbage, bean sprouts, pork, and other toppings, and some have yakisoba noodles added to it, and okonomiyaki sauce or tomato sauce is poured over the cake.

Although Shota likes it, Yukino doesn't seem to be very interested in this. Under Shota's gaze, after taking a small bite, his face was slightly distorted by the mixed taste.

It's like eating an unripe tangerine.

"Huh? Not to your liking? Then you're welcome for the rest. ”

“…… Why didn't I realize that Shota you can eat so much. ”

"It's okay, maybe because these aren't rice, I won't feel particularly full when I eat them. But it looks like it's almost the same now, so let's play some games. Shota stuffed all the okonomiyaki that Yukino had only eaten three times and two times into his mouth, and looked around, "Oh~ There are masks sold over there, why don't you go and take a look?" ”

"Wait, Shota."

"Huh?"

Shota, who was already about to take a step, suddenly realized that the sleeves of his loose yukata coat were pulled by Yukino. Turning his head to look at Yukino, the other party just stared at Shota tightly and didn't say a word.

"What's wrong? Is it because you haven't eaten enough? ”

"I'm not a gorilla like you."

Realizing that Shota didn't realize his intentions, Yukino's mood obviously deteriorated a lot, and he showed it to Shota without concealment.

"It's, it's terrible."

After watching a couple with smiling faces pass by him, Xue Nai couldn't help but mutter.

She didn't believe that she would say such a coquettish word.

It should be, inaudible, right?

The noisy surroundings and the calm expression on Shota's face made Yukino breathe a sigh of relief, and it seemed that such a sentence that was obviously inconsistent with her style was not heard by Shota.

In fact, if Shota hadn't focused on Yukino, he wouldn't have been able to hear that whisper. But on the contrary, he was deliberately playing tricks on Yukino from the beginning, how could he not pay attention to it?

"Let's go, Yukino."

The night is dark, the sun has completely set, and the surrounding lights, as well as the rather atmospheric lanterns, have been lit up. In the light of the soft goose-yellow lantern, Shota's face flickered and darkened. However, the slightly blue pupils and the beautiful arc raised at the corners of the mouth suddenly made Yukino forget to breathe for a while.

Until, Shota stretched out his slender palm.

"Hmmm......"

Yukino lowered her head slightly, pinched her earlobe with her thumb and forefinger, and after a moment it calmly looked at each other with Shota, and held Shota's outstretched right hand.

Yono once said that the loveliest thing about the sister who had been staggering behind him was the delicate earlobes that were dyed with a layer of red when she was shy. For the second half of this sentence, Shota couldn't agree with it now.

As two people who both like cats, but have never owned cats, when he found out that there were two black kitten masks hanging from the stall selling masks, Shota paid for the two masks very straightforwardly.

"Is it good-looking?"

After putting the mask on, Shota asked Yukino triumphantly.

"It's naïve."

Yukino still responded with mockery, which would have been more convincing if she hadn't held the mask tightly in her hand.

"Don't be embarrassed, come on, I'll put it on for you."

"Uh, no need to ......"

Half-pushed, half-pushed, Yukino still handed the mask to Shota.

"Okay, that's it."

“……”

Yukino didn't speak, but Shota could imagine that the expression under the mask must have been shy. That's right, Shota is specifically fantasizing in the direction of cuteness. However, although the mask is cute, it is not very comfortable to wear on the face, and it will affect the vision, so Shota took the mask off, but Yukino kept wearing the mask.

"Where are you going next, by the way, let's go to the stall you've been secretly looking at."

“……”

Yukino, who was wearing a cat mask, tilted his head towards Shota, but due to the mask's obscuration, Shota had no way to see what kind of expression Yukino's face was.

After gently patting the mask on Yukino's face, Shota continued to laugh and tease, "If you don't speak, I'll take you by default." ”

What Shota didn't expect was that Yukino simply ignored Shota, who had been teasing him since just now, and walked towards a stall on his own, a stall for catching goldfish and turtles.

She didn't expect that Shota actually saw that she had been secretly targeting the child over there just now to catch goldfish. But because of the mask and the atmosphere of the festival itself, I didn't care much about Shota's playful gaze.